JP2011526395A5

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Publication number: JP2011526395A5
Application number: JP2011516741A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2009-06-26
Publication date: 2012-08-16
Anticipated expiration: 2029-06-26

Claims

Receiving at a central electronic monitoring system via a communication network a plurality of measurements each indicative of the temperature of a computer of the plurality of computers ;
E Bei and calculating the thermal health value for each of the plurality of computers based on said measurements,
The computer-implemented method wherein calculating the thermal health value comprises standardizing a platform type of the computer.

The method of claim 1, wherein calculating the thermal health value comprises comparing the measured value to a stored threshold value.

The method of claim 1, wherein the measurement comprises one or more of temperature, power used by the computer, utilization of the computer, or rotational speed of a fan of the computer.

Different further comprising the step of receiving a plurality of measurements of the type, the step of calculating the thermal health value comprises the step of coupling the plurality of measurements, the method according to claim 3.

The measurement comprises one or more temperature measurements of the central processing unit of the computer, the disk drive of the computer, the memory module of the computer, the motherboard of the computer, or air near the computer. Item 2. The method according to Item 1.

The method of claim 1, wherein the thermal health value is a dimensionless value that ranges from 0 to 1 or from 0 to 10 .

The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a descriptor for the thermal health value from a finite set of descriptors.

Generating an alarm when the thermal health value exceeds a threshold , or adjusting one or more of power, cooling, or utilization based on the thermal health value; The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of the steps .

At least some of the plurality of computers are different platforms, and the step of calculating a thermal health value for each of the plurality of computers is standardized such that each thermal health value falls within the same range of values 2. The method of claim 1 , comprising the step of:

The method of claim 9 , wherein the range of values provides a mapping to computer behavior that is uniform across different platforms.

Further comprising the method of claim 1 the step of aggregating the thermal health values over one or more of the power domains, cooling domain, logical domains, and physical location domain.

To the processor,
A plurality of a plurality of measurement values indicating the temperature of the computer each certain of the computer, instructions and the Ru is received by the central electronic monitoring system via a communications network,
E Bei instructions and for calculating the thermal health value attached to each of the plurality of computers based on said measurements,
The computer program product tangibly implemented on a machine-readable storage medium , wherein the instructions for calculating the thermal health value include instructions for standardizing a platform type of the computer.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the instructions for calculating the thermal health value include instructions for comparing the measured value with a stored threshold value.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the measured value comprises one or more of temperature, power used by the computer, utilization of the computer, or rotational speed of a fan of the computer.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 , further comprising instructions for receiving a plurality of different types of measurements, wherein the instructions for calculating the thermal health value include instructions for combining the plurality of measurements.

The measurement comprises one or more temperature measurements of the central processing unit of the computer, the disk drive of the computer, the memory module of the computer, the motherboard of the computer, or air near the computer. Item 15. A computer program product according to item 14 .

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the thermal health value is a dimensionless value that takes a value in the range of 0 to 1 or in the range of 0 to 10 .

The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising instructions for selecting a descriptor for the thermal health value from a finite set of descriptors.

An instruction that generates an alarm when the thermal health value exceeds a threshold , or an instruction that adjusts one or more of power, cooling, and utilization based on the thermal health value; 13. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising at least one of the instructions .

At least some of the plurality of computers are different platforms, and the instructions for calculating thermal health values for each of the plurality of computers are standardized so that each thermal health value falls within the same range of values The computer program product of claim 12 , comprising instructions to perform.

21. The computer program product of claim 20 , wherein the range of values provides a mapping to computer behavior that is uniform across different platforms.

21. The computer program product of claim 20 , further comprising instructions for aggregating the thermal health value across one or more of a power domain, a cooling domain, a logical domain, and a physical location domain.

  Receiving at a central electronic monitoring system via a communication network a plurality of measurements each indicative of the temperature of a computer of the plurality of computers;
  Calculating a thermal health value for each of the plurality of computers based on the measured values,
  Calculating the thermal health value comprises standardizing a platform type of the computer;
  At least some of the plurality of computers are different platforms, and the step of calculating a thermal health value for each of the plurality of computers is standardized such that each thermal health value falls within the same range of values A computer-implemented method comprising the steps of:

  To the processor,
  Instructions for causing a central electronic monitoring system to receive a plurality of measured values each indicating a temperature of a computer of the plurality of computers via a communication network;
  Instructions for calculating a thermal health value for each of the plurality of computers based on the measured values,
  The instructions for calculating the thermal health value include instructions for standardizing a platform type of the computer,
  At least some of the plurality of computers are different platforms, and the instructions for calculating thermal health values for each of the plurality of computers are standardized so that each thermal health value falls within the same range of values A computer program product tangibly implemented on a machine-readable storage medium, including instructions to perform.